Elements of the philosophy of the human mindHilliard and Brown, 1829 |
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... commonly entertained against metaphysical speculations , seems to arise chiefly from two causes : First , from an apprehension that the sub- jects about which they are employed , are placed beyond the reach of the human faculties ; and ...
... commonly entertained against metaphysical speculations , seems to arise chiefly from two causes : First , from an apprehension that the sub- jects about which they are employed , are placed beyond the reach of the human faculties ; and ...
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... commonly imagined ; and whether a fuller illustra- tion of the rules of philosophizing , than Bacon or his followers have given , might not be useful , even to phys- ical inquirers . When we reflect in this manner , on the shortness of ...
... commonly imagined ; and whether a fuller illustra- tion of the rules of philosophizing , than Bacon or his followers have given , might not be useful , even to phys- ical inquirers . When we reflect in this manner , on the shortness of ...
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... commonly intrusted . - Nor will such a theoretical knowledge of the human mind , as I have now described , be always sufficient in practice . An uncom- mon degree of sagacity is frequently requisite , in order to accommodate general ...
... commonly intrusted . - Nor will such a theoretical knowledge of the human mind , as I have now described , be always sufficient in practice . An uncom- mon degree of sagacity is frequently requisite , in order to accommodate general ...
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... commonly called originality of genius most fre- quently appears and surely the great aim of an en- lightened and benevolent philosophy , is not to rear a small number of individuals , who may be regarded as prodigies in an ignorant and ...
... commonly called originality of genius most fre- quently appears and surely the great aim of an en- lightened and benevolent philosophy , is not to rear a small number of individuals , who may be regarded as prodigies in an ignorant and ...
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... commonly found , that , in proportion as an established creed is complicated in its dogmas and in its ceremo- nies , and in proportion to the number of accessory ideas which it has grafted upon the truth , the more difficult is it , for ...
... commonly found , that , in proportion as an established creed is complicated in its dogmas and in its ceremo- nies , and in proportion to the number of accessory ideas which it has grafted upon the truth , the more difficult is it , for ...
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abstrac abstract acquired analogy appears applied Aristotle asso association of ideas attention believe body cerning Cicero circumstances common commonly conceive conception concerning conclusions connexion consequence considered degree doctrine effect employed enable exer exertions existence experience express external objects fact faculties Foot Note foregoing former genius habits human mind illustrate imagination impressions individuals influence inquiries instance intellectual invention jects knowledge language laws Leibnitz Lord Bacon Malebranche mankind manner matter means memory ment metaphysical moral natural philosophy nature necessary nexion Nominalists notions observations occasion ogous operations opinion original particular perceive perception person phenomena philosophers philosophy of mind Plato pleasure pneumatology poet political prejudices present principles produce quæ reasoning recollection Reid relations remarks render respect says sensation sense sensible sleep species spect speculations Stilpo supposed supposition taste theory things thought tical tion truth words writings
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Seite 221 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Seite 377 - I beheld his body half wasted away with long expectation and confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arises from hope deferred. Upon looking nearer, I saw him pale and feverish, in thirty years the western breeze had not once fanned his blood ; — he had seen no sun, no moon, in all that time; — nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice ! " His children — " But here my heart began to bleed ; — I was forced to go on with another part of...
Seite 406 - ... ideas are general, when they are set up as the representatives of many particular things : but universality belongs not to things themselves, which are all of them particular in their existence ; even those words and ideas which in their signification are general.
Seite 58 - It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it.
Seite 61 - But this universal and primary opinion of all men is soon destroyed by the slightest philosophy which teaches us that nothing can ever be present to the mind but an image or perception...
Seite 16 - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Seite 416 - But going over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts, talking well, and drawing fine pictures, of it; this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it, in him who thus employs himself, that it may harden the mind in a contrary course, and render it gradually more insensible ; «. e. form a habit of insensibility to all moral considerations.
Seite 50 - I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room; for methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without...
Seite 101 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Seite 58 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into...